MIKE LYNN | Creating the Digital Destination for Faith (Ep. 401)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Mike Lynn to the show. He is the Co-Founder and current CFO of pray.com. Pray.com is the world’s #1 app for daily prayer and faith-based audio content, driven by a mission to grow faith and cultivate community. Mike helped start Pray.com in 2016. In this interview, we discuss why he went from the world of finance to the world of entrepreneurism, how he ended up as one of the founders of pray.com, some of the early struggles the company had, how they view free speech as it pertains to their platform, their thoughts on including the content of controversial Christian figures on their app, why they decided to create premium content behind a paywall, what pray.com is doing to fight the culture wars, what the future has in store for the platform, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Undaunted Life, a man's podcast on your host Kyle Thompson.
0:23.4	Let's get into it.
0:24.4	Hi guys.
0:25.4	Today we've got a special guest on the podcast.
0:26.4	His name is Mike Lynn.
0:27.4	He is the co-founder and CFO of Pray.com.
0:30.4	So Pray.com, if you've not heard of that before, that is the world's number one app for
0:33.7	daily prayer and faith-based audio content.
0:36.3	And so they're driven by the mission to grow faith and cultivate community and Mike actually
0:40.6	helps start Pray.com back in 2016.
0:43.8	But before I get into kind of what we talked about in the interview, I got to be honest.
0:47.3	Every time I do an interview, I do as much preparation as I feel comfortable as is
0:51.0	needed in order to create good content, to create a good conversation.
0:54.5	And so with this one, it's like, well, there wasn't a book to read.
0:57.1	There wasn't a bunch of YouTube videos I had to watch or anything like that.
1:00.6	So it's like, two degrees.
1:01.6	I was like, okay, what am I going to talk about?
1:02.8	So I dug into the app.
1:04.1	I dug into the reviews of the app.
1:06.0	I dug into this guy's past and looked at his bio and looked at some different things.
1:09.8	But I kind of decide.
1:10.8	I'm like, you know what?
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